Back in 1970, Glass and Stanley in their excellent Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology book, Prentice-Hall ... had an excellent chapter on several of the more important distributions used in statistical work (normal, chi square, F, and t) and developed how each was derived from the other(s). Most recent books do not develop distributions in this fashion anymore: they tend to discuss distributions ONLY when a specific test is discussed. I have found this to be a more disjointed treatment.
Anyway, I have developed a handout that parallels their chapter, and have used Minitab to do simulation work that supplements what they have presented. The first form of this can be found in a PDF file at: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/papers/statdist2.PDF Now, there is still some editing work to do AND, working with the spacing of text. Acrobat does not allow too much in the way of EDITING features and, trying to edit the original document and then convert to pdf, is also somewhat of a hit and miss operation. When I get an improved version with better spacing, I will simply copy over the file above. In the meantime, I would appreciate any feedback about this document and the general thrust of it. Feel free to pass the url along to students and others; copy freely and use if you find this helpful. Dennis Roberts, 208 Cedar Bldg., University Park PA 16802 <Emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm AC 8148632401 ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
